I’d forgotten to post about this until I ran into the artist, Nathan Fitch, outside the show’s opening yesterday. It stays up all month. His words below.
Right now I have a show up in the main gallery at AS220. For about a year I hung out and photographed a group of artists with disabilities in East Providence at the Top Drawer Art Center. After leaving, I began sending them the portraits that I had made of them and they colored over them, turning my photos into self portraits. The show pairs up my photos with their self portraits (which I hope makes for an interesting interplay).
Anyway, the opening for the show is this coming Sunday from 4-7 pm. The artists whom I photographed are pretty excited about having photographs of them and their self portraits up in a public space and I think it would only enhance their pleasure (and mine too I confess) if people show up for the opening. It would also be great to bring this group of interesting people who are well out of the mainstream of society into contact with some of the nice people living in Providence.